#consc

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

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There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#conscience #god #voice #you

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ↗

— Herodotus

#correct #defects #few #few things #happen

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#consciousness #everyone #misleading #process #right

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #idea #keen #unconscious

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#around #being #consciousness #determines #ever

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #conscious #each #face #friend

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#belongs #end #freedom #goodness #hurry